The Anne & Bernard Spitzer HALL
OF HUMAN ORIGINS

At the American Museum of
Natural History

By Glenn Loney

The the American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th St.
212-769-5100

This new densely-packed multi-media Exploration of the Origins of Humans
& Their Habitats is going to be extremely popular with school-groups and
parents-with-kids on weekends. You can make things happen as you wander among
the fascinating sections of this Primal Show!

Yes, Virginia, Anne & Bernard are the super-generous parents of our new
Governor, Elliot Spitzer! This degree of financial-security augurs well for
the Intended Reforms up in Albany. Obviously, Gov. Spitzer doesn't have to
be involved in some of the recent questionable real-estate & policy decisions
in the State Capitol.

If you are convinced that Intelligent Design explains it all, this installation
should soon demonstrate the falsity of that Creationist Premise. In fact,
the millennia-long Evolution of Humankind is documented, with a humanoid head
from Chad having survived over six-million years!

If you loved Halloween, you may also love all the Skeletons you will see
in this haunting Hall!

After inspecting the Human Origins Hall, members of the press were invited
into the Upper Sancta of the American Museum. Here, endless hall-cabinets
are bursting with labeled artifacts from Museum Digs around the world. Your
scribe saw box after box of what looked like Mayan ceramic gods. But they
could have been Aztec or Inca…

We crowded into the office-lab where the lifelike heads of the Museum's exhibition-installations
of Prehistoric Men--and Women--are researched and fabricated. We admired an
amazing DNA-analysis robotic.

When a pipe burst and flooded one of the historic hallways upstairs, we were
assured that all the specimens & artifacts are stored in the ultimate
of protective boxes & files.

Such Behind-the-Scenes tours are powerful reminders that--quite aside from
maintaining magnificent Public-Spaces, with Night at the Museum-quality displays--the
American Museum's primary mission is scientific-exploration & research,
plus teaching. A PhD will soon be offered!

This is one of the world's greatest--if not THE Greatest--Natural History research-institutions.
Generous tax-deductible contributions are always welcome!